the locality is of frequent resort by the teetotal excursionistsand there at least they will find a "waste of waters."

The allusion to the caverns above and near the Falls of Clyde having been a place of refuge for Wallace and his compatriots is over-hackneyed, and in great part apochryphal, as has been demonstrated in the antiquarian section of this Work. Bowring has some fine lines on the Falls of Clyde; in which Balfour of Burley finding refuge there is tastefully referred to.

Below Corra there is a smaller Fall, that of Dundaff, and it may be the most useful, if it be the least awful of the Falls, seeing that the water power for the mills of New Lanark are drawn from it; but of this more fully afterwards.

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Below the new bridge of Lanark are the Falls of Stonebyres, noticed by Pennant as "the most awful of the three;" but more rarely visited by the sight-hunter, being not quite so accessible; who, it may be, like Thomas Pennant when advised to visit another Fall called Dundafflin-Dundaff Lin, "being satiated for this time with the noise of waters, we declined it." historian of Lanark, Davidson, is eloquent on Stonebyres, and describes it as possessing more strange sublimity than either Corra or Bonnington, but in many respects like to Corra, as both are nearly of the same height, both send down their flood by three distinct, yet almost imperceptibly marked leaps, and both sensibly widen as they descend. Here nature ranges uncontrolled; the mind of art has done nothing for the accommodation of the visitor, as at Corra or Bonnington, and he is left to choose for himself a station, and although in some points fringed with coppice, yet they are destitute of that majestic grandeur," etc. The best view may be got a short way down the wood, where the bed of the river can be reached without great difficulty. The gulf below is known as the "salmon pool," where, in spawning time, shoals of that noble fish congregate; and they are frequent in their attempts-vain always to ascend the Linn. To quote again from Davidson"A more amusing and delightful sight can hardly be conceived than when the evening sun is gilding the western horizon, and illuminating the broad sides of the salmon, radiant with scales,

they shine like a mass of refulgent gold, as, when leaping, they appear for a moment in the air, or skim beneath the blue wave.” A short way above the Lin of Stonebyres, the deep Clyde was compressed within a sluice-like space, but a few feet in width, and so narrow at one time that good leapers could spring across, but not always with safety; but the temptation to make the fool-hardy experiment has been abated by the humane proprietor having blasted a portion of the rock and widened the chasm. The Lanark book has many tales related of hair-breadth escapes at the perilous pass above Stonebyres Linn, and the curious reader is referred to his pages for all such details.

Before closing the notice of the Falls of the Clyde, some condensed extracts may be made from an excellent paper in the New Statistical Account, contributed in 1834 by the Rev. Wm. Menzies, minister of the parish, and father-in-law of Charles Cowan, late M.P. for Edinburgh:-"The Clyde, above the Falls, is a large and beautiful river, flowing through a long track of holm land, which being very little elevated above the bed of the stream, is liable to be overflowed; and seems once to have formed the bottom of an extensive lake, before the waters had worn their channel sufficiently deep to drain it." "At Bonnington, the river, in a divided stream, is abruptly precipitated over the ledge of rocks; the channel, for about half a mile, being formed of a range of perpendicular and equidistant rocks, which are from seventy to one hundred feet high." "Below Corehouse the river assumes a more tranquil character, until it reaches the small cascade of Dundaff Lin; the banks now slope more gently, sometimes covered with natural wood, and sometimes cultivated to the water's edge." "At Stonebyres, it passes through another rocky ridge, and projects itself, in three leaps, over a precipice of eighty feet in height. In its farther course, which extends about a mile and a half in the parish of Lanark, the Clyde in general flows quietly, between gently-sloping and beautifully-wooded banks. The breadth and depth of the river vary at different places; at the broadest a stone may be thrown across, and there is a spot between the Bonnington and the Corra Falls where the whole volume of its waters is so confined between

two rocks that an adventurous leaper has been known to clear it at a bound; there are fords which children can wade across, and pools which never have been fathomed." "Nothing can surpass the variety and beauty of the prospect near the Falls of Clyde, which successively present themselves to the eye of the traveller" -in 1834 railways were not, and tourists few. "The way to the waterfalls lies, for the most part, through the beautiful grounds of Bonnington; and, with a liberality worthy of imitation, the Ross family, to whom the property belongs, allow free access on every day but the Sabbath, and at all hours, to the public, who find tasteful walks kept in the highest order, and seats, at every fine point of view, for their accommodation." "Bonnington, the upper, is perhaps the least beautiful of the Falls, owing to its smaller height, and to the bareness of the southern bank above it. Still, when seen from the point at which it first bursts upon the view, it is very imposing; and by means of a bridge thrown across the north branch of the stream, immediately above the precipice, and points of observation happily selected, some charming coups-d'œil have been secured to the admirers of nature." "At Corra Linn, descending by the flight of steps (a rough-like ladder), recently formed along the face of the opposite rock, the traveller (tourist, excursionist?) reaches a deep and capacious amphitheatre, where he finds himself exactly in front, and on a level with the bottom of the Fall. The foaming waters, as they are projected in a double leap over the precipice; the black and sweltering pool below; the magnificent range of dark, perpendicular rocks, one hundred and twenty feet in height, which sweep around him on the left; the romantic banks on the opposite side; the river calmly pursuing its onward course; and the rich garniture of wood with which the whole is dressed, combine to form a spectacle with which the most celebrated cataracts of Switzerland and Sweden will scarcely stand a comparison." "Stonebyres has great similarity in many of its features to the Corra Linn, and, in the opinion of many, it is even superior to it in beauty."

The Mouse-water (52) has been before alluded to as nearly bisecting the parish of Lanark. Fullarton describes it as "a